Quote Originally Posted by Purple Banana
it passes through the pyloric sphincter (Gateway from the stomach to the large colon) ...
Hey, Purple Banana! I enjoy the heck outta your posts and your clear, straight-talk when it comes to health stuff. You're well informed and level-headed. But it's actually the small intestine (jejunum, duodenum, ileum) where the gluten digestion begins--and which the pyloric sphincter opens into. We're just been taking the gut apart piece by piece in anatomy. It's the ileocecal valve that opens into the large colon downstream another 22 feet or so at the end of the small bowel. I figure you already know that well and just got your colons temporarily switched. That's always happening to me! Slippery devils, those things. (LOL!)